Brane probes, toric geometry, and closed string tachyons
Abstract
We study non-supersymmetric orbifold singularities from the point of view of D-brane probes. We present a description of the decay of such singularities from considerations of the toric geometry of the probe branes.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- January 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01022-2
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0206109
- Bibcode:
- 2003NuPhB.648..497S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 1+34 pages, LaTeX, final version to appear in NPB
